cirianz
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lol, you found out our evil plan muahaha 
Thanks Taffy but I'm too paranoid for that. I won't even have repair men/women come around when there's no one home
couldn't have a total stranger living in our house, no matter how many refferences they had.
I know what you mean about catteries. I had to leave my cat in one once & it was just a box with a cage area that the cat was allowed out into twice a day for about an hour. I swore I'd never do it again.
Mind you, John has found a cattery for his cat that's so cat friendly & cosy I wouldn't mind staying there myself! It even has a 'cat TV' (a goldfish tank set into the wall). The whole thing was quite amazing. whoever designed it not only loved cats, they knew cats as well. I don't think I'd've minded leaving my cats there, but I have four of them now, & this place wasn't cheap so I've got the nextdoor girl comming over to feed them twice a day. They know her & will be quite happy for 2-3 weeks without us at that time of year. They'll spend most of their time sprawling around in their favourite sunbathe or shady spots & probably not even notice we're gone
In the continuing saga, John & I spent the last couple of days moving dirt. We are stealing a chunk of the paddock to make a flat area for socialising wedding guests & a general 'summer picnics' type spot. However, in order to make this flat area we have had to spend much time digging up a hill & moving it to a drop. It won't be a huge area, but it will be flat... eventually. We'll have to get some more dirt than the hill could provide to fill that drop & we have to get it done in time to grow grassy stuff all over it before the wedding
Plus we are building a fence up past the flat area so John made a farm gate night before last (he says it's in the style of english train gates... although not quite that long obviously) & last night we planted the fence poles & hung the gate. The gate itself is perfectly level, unfortunately, however, the paddock is not so that, while at the hinge end it is only a couple of inches off the ground, at the other end it is high enough for my son to climb under it. So our earth moving efforts have had to expand to include changing the shape of the planet to fit our gate
I am hoping that we will get to take tonight off, as I have a ton of paperwork to get sorted before the ERO guy comes & I seem to spend most of the daytime goose sitting. I almost wish this guy would come now so that it was over & done with. Tomo is already having nightmares about it. There are a whole ton of questions I have to answer during the interview. About twice as many as with the last guy. & some of them are so ridiculous.
"Do you think your child is better off being homeschooled?" Um... no... I'm really sure they'd be better off in a state school, I just gave up my career to homeschool them because i had an overwhelming desire to sabotage their education so that they were as ill prepared as possible for their own futures
I mean, is this guy retarded? Does he really think anyone would be homeschooling their children if they didn't think their kids were better off being homeschooled? & this is just one example. & the scary thing is that this guy gets to decide if we keep our homeschool licence.
Oh well. I'll just have to make sure that I totally supress any indication that I might have a sense of humor for the duration of the interview & try and answer his questions with a straight face. Both of my kids are afraid that this guy will take away the licence. The annoying thing is that, although if I genuinely believed that my kids could get as good an education at school as they can at home then of course they'd be at school, nevertheless it is us who must prove to them that we do a good enough job. They are not required to prove to us at all that they are competent enough to educate our children & if they are not competent & they do not give us a homeschool licence, then we have no choice but to entrust our children's education to them. Go figure
Rant over, sorry
Thanks Taffy but I'm too paranoid for that. I won't even have repair men/women come around when there's no one home
couldn't have a total stranger living in our house, no matter how many refferences they had.
I know what you mean about catteries. I had to leave my cat in one once & it was just a box with a cage area that the cat was allowed out into twice a day for about an hour. I swore I'd never do it again.
Mind you, John has found a cattery for his cat that's so cat friendly & cosy I wouldn't mind staying there myself! It even has a 'cat TV' (a goldfish tank set into the wall). The whole thing was quite amazing. whoever designed it not only loved cats, they knew cats as well. I don't think I'd've minded leaving my cats there, but I have four of them now, & this place wasn't cheap so I've got the nextdoor girl comming over to feed them twice a day. They know her & will be quite happy for 2-3 weeks without us at that time of year. They'll spend most of their time sprawling around in their favourite sunbathe or shady spots & probably not even notice we're gone
In the continuing saga, John & I spent the last couple of days moving dirt. We are stealing a chunk of the paddock to make a flat area for socialising wedding guests & a general 'summer picnics' type spot. However, in order to make this flat area we have had to spend much time digging up a hill & moving it to a drop. It won't be a huge area, but it will be flat... eventually. We'll have to get some more dirt than the hill could provide to fill that drop & we have to get it done in time to grow grassy stuff all over it before the wedding
Plus we are building a fence up past the flat area so John made a farm gate night before last (he says it's in the style of english train gates... although not quite that long obviously) & last night we planted the fence poles & hung the gate. The gate itself is perfectly level, unfortunately, however, the paddock is not so that, while at the hinge end it is only a couple of inches off the ground, at the other end it is high enough for my son to climb under it. So our earth moving efforts have had to expand to include changing the shape of the planet to fit our gate
I am hoping that we will get to take tonight off, as I have a ton of paperwork to get sorted before the ERO guy comes & I seem to spend most of the daytime goose sitting. I almost wish this guy would come now so that it was over & done with. Tomo is already having nightmares about it. There are a whole ton of questions I have to answer during the interview. About twice as many as with the last guy. & some of them are so ridiculous.
"Do you think your child is better off being homeschooled?" Um... no... I'm really sure they'd be better off in a state school, I just gave up my career to homeschool them because i had an overwhelming desire to sabotage their education so that they were as ill prepared as possible for their own futures
I mean, is this guy retarded? Does he really think anyone would be homeschooling their children if they didn't think their kids were better off being homeschooled? & this is just one example. & the scary thing is that this guy gets to decide if we keep our homeschool licence.
Oh well. I'll just have to make sure that I totally supress any indication that I might have a sense of humor for the duration of the interview & try and answer his questions with a straight face. Both of my kids are afraid that this guy will take away the licence. The annoying thing is that, although if I genuinely believed that my kids could get as good an education at school as they can at home then of course they'd be at school, nevertheless it is us who must prove to them that we do a good enough job. They are not required to prove to us at all that they are competent enough to educate our children & if they are not competent & they do not give us a homeschool licence, then we have no choice but to entrust our children's education to them. Go figure
Rant over, sorry
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